STAT637 SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS
Course Code: |
2460637 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
Department: |
Statistics |
Language of Instruction: |
English |
Level of Study: |
Graduate |
Course Coordinator: |
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Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Modeling data with spatial structure, geostatistical data, random fields; variograms, covariance, stationarity, kriging, areal data, spatial regression, SAR, CAR, QAR, MA models, Geary/Moran indices, point patterns, G, F, K, L functions, complete spatial randomness; homogeneous/inhomogeneous processes, marked point processes, spatio-temporal modeling, visualization of spatial data. The programming language R and a few packages for analyzing spatial data will also be introduced.